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Art Institute of Chicago

13,123 works

Etching of a seated man in evening dress beside a nude woman holding a drape, with a clothed woman behind them under a lamp.

Between Acts or the Englishwoman of the New Ballet

Félicien Rops, n.d.

Woodcut broadside showing a bullfighter with capes facing a bull, above columns of printed verses about Lino Zamora.

True Verses about Lino Zamora

José Guadalupe Posada, 1911

Drawing of a nude woman in a jester cap holding a flaming crowned mask, surrounded by grimacing masks and a stone pedestal.

Modern Masks

Félicien Rops, 1889

Green broadside with a central skeleton in a sombrero surrounded by skeletal crowds and skulls, with Spanish verses below.

Revolutionary Calavera

José Guadalupe Posada, c. 1910

Etching by Félicien Rops showing many overlapping sketched heads and faces, several wearing hats, arranged across a rectangul

Hodgepodge

Félicien Rops, late 19th century

Etched frontispiece showing a reclining nude woman on a canopied bed, with putti, attendants and a banner reading La messe de

Frontispiece to La messe de Gnide

Félicien Rops, 1881

Etched frontispiece with a woman in a hooped skirt and a man in a tricorn hat within rococo floral framing and a title cartou

Frontispiece to Margot la Ravaudeuse

Félicien Rops, 1868

Broadside poster with woodcut of a train wreck in mountains, Spanish text and verse about the 1910 Palo Blanco derailment.

The Derailment in Palo Blanco

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Etched frontispiece with an embracing couple, cherubs and scrolling ornament, with a ribbon reading Point de lendemain.

Frontispiece for Point de lendemain

Félicien Rops, 1867

Portrait of Félicien Rops

Adrien Lambert Jean de Witte, c. 1895

Broadside with calavera verse, two skeleton figures in dress, and a skeletal funeral procession carrying a coffin below.

Calavera: Historica-Religiosa (Calavera: Historic-Religious)

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Full-length Portrait of a Woman

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1846

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a velvet robe and curled wig, holding a book and quill, with a printed inscription below

Pierre Mignard

Georg Friedrich Schmidt, 1744

Grey and white wash sketch of leafy branches and foliage on a tan paper ground.

Sketch of Foliage and Branches

Angeluccio, c. 1645-50

Broadside print with a central skeleton wearing a flowered hat, above rhyming Spanish verses in columns and a decorative bord

Calaveras of the Cucaracha: A Party in the Afterlife

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Relief print of skeletons in period clothing dancing beside a barrel, with rows of satirical verse below, by José Guadalupe P

Gift from Calaveras

José Guadalupe Posada, 1910

Orange broadside with a woodcut of sombrero-wearing men among trees above two columns of Spanish verse.

New Verses from Carlos Coronado

José Guadalupe Posada, 1910

Engraving of mourners lowering Christ's body into a stone tomb, with a crown of thorns in the foreground.

The Entombment, from The Passion

Martin Schongauer, n.d.

Woodcut broadside of a horseman with raised sword on a rearing horse, above printed verses announcing the criminal Ignacio Pa

Already the Authority...

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Broadside with woodcut scenes of a guitarist and soldiers above columns of printed verse about Valentín Mancera.

Verses of Valentin Mancera

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Broadside of Cupid's Calavera showing rows of skeleton figures in period clothing, each with a printed verse below.

Cupid's Calavera

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Posada broadside of a bearded man in a top hat surrounded by reading skeletons and printed books, with verse text.

The Calavera of the Peoples' Editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

José Guadalupe Posada, 1902

Woodcut broadside of a skeleton in a sombrero and serape playing guitar, flanked by printed verse columns.

Calavera of the Masses, no. 2

José Guadalupe Posada, c. 1910

Red relief print of dancing skeletons in hats and dresses above columns of Spanish verse, by José Guadalupe Posada.

Pachuquenian Calavera

José Guadalupe Posada, 1894

Lithograph of a top-hatted man in a long coat reaching toward a sleeve, with an elderly man with cane and a woman nearby.

One Robs on the Side of the Law

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, December 1898

Etching of a woman in a headscarf sewing while seated in a room with a latticed window and wooden chair.

A Woman Sewing

Jean-François Millet, 1855

Etching of a woman in a headscarf churning butter in a tall wooden churn beside a cat, with baskets on a bench behind.

A Woman Churning

Jean-François Millet, 1855

Pale line drawing of a man in a hat leaning on a spade against a dark smudged background, on cream paper.

Man Resting On His Spade

Jean-François Millet, n.d.

Dark etching of two figures in a dim interior, one cradling a bundle by candlelight, the other leaning in shadow.

The Vigil

Jean-François Millet, 1856

Pen and ink drawing of a seated shepherdess with a staff, with sheep grazing in a field and trees on the horizon.

The Shepherdess

Jean-François Millet, 1863